On Sunday afternoon, after the latest of what has been many sad and uninspiring losses from the 2025 Giants, KNBR post game host and former Giants hurler Bill Laskey ripped the team after an 8-0 loss to the Nationals. Laskey called the Giants’ effort “disappointing, frustrating, and delusional.” He followed it up by reiterating that the Giants showed “absolutely no effort.”
Laskey wasn’t done. He hammered home the point with a poignant “You should be ashamed of yourself, Giants players.” Harsh, yes. Unreasonable? Absolutely not. He spoke for most of the fan base.
Unfortunately for the orange and black and their fans, his message didn’t get through to the Giants. San Francisco followed up that awful performance with an equally uninspiring sleepwalk through a 4-1 loss to the Padres on Monday night. The Giants have scored three total runs in their last 27 innings at Oracle Park. They’ve lost 11 of their last 12 home games. Somehow, this team finds a new low for a disappointing season with each passing day.
Bob Melvin didn’t have much of anything new to share after another dreadful loss. He praised San Diego starter Yu Darvish. He repeated some of the same verbiage he’s expressed throughout the Giants miserable July and August stretch. Giants fans looking for a table flipping outburst from Melvin won’t find it. At least not publicly.
Logan Webb was again good, but not great. A brutal seventh inning after an excellent six innings gave him the loss. He was once again the victim of a grotesque lack of run support, a feeble Giants offense trudging through another game with uncompetitive at bats, hoards of strikeouts, and a pungent ability to run horrified from any run scoring opportunity that could help give on of its All star arms a win. Webb, much like you and I, has no idea why this has happened.
The quest to find positivity, which gets harder as the summer wanes, was once again fruitful. Rafael Devers accounted for the Giants only run with a solo blast to left center in the sixth.
Just in time. Not.
Don’t pull a muscle in your brain trying to figure out why the Giants have been one of baseball’s worst teams since becoming legitimate title contenders when they acquired Rafael Devers in mid June. There’s no logical explanation for it. Buster Posey made the right move, he was aggressive and put the team in position to win in his first year. The responsibility falls in the dugout. First with the players, but very significantly with the manager and his staff.
Giants fans are living through some form of Deja Vu, as the 2025 season unfolds almost exactly like the 2022, 23, and 24 seasons did. Some hope in Spring, a surge here and there in early summer, and then a fatal slide that leaves the team firmly out of contention by the time the calendar flips to September. It’s a lot like the deja vu fans must have felt watching Patrick Bailey’s at bats on Monday night. Not once, not twice, but THREE times did the Giants catcher watch strike three go by before flipping his bat towards the dugout thinking he had drawn a walk.
Hey, tomorrow’s a new opportunity. Right, skip?